Elvis, the Printable(?) Skull by HPaul

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Elvis, the Printable(?) Skull

HPaul

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Published on September 27, 2011

This thing was Featured on September 27, 2011

Derived from

Cleaned Hollow Skull

by ssd

Description

Thanks to "Cleaned Hollow Skull by ssd" for the mesh of the skull and mandible. I’ve cleaned up the interior a bit, attached the mandible, and added support and “teeth.” If anyone can further clean this up, please do.

Printable(?) because there are hanging filaments and a great deal of excess plastic on the inside that I haven’t been able to lose. The drooping threads vary in quantity and placement depending on the scale. On the upside, the droops are all on the undersides or inside of the print, are easily cleaned up with an X-acto & sandpaper, and don’t affect the final appearance.

Instructions

The .stl file is at the maximum size that fits on my build platform. The other sizes shown were set at 75% and 50% scale in ReplicatorG and take considerably less time to print out. (The full sized Elvis took seven and a half hours to print with zero extra shells and 10% fill.)

Why “Elvis”?

Check out the sneer.

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ssd on October 23, 2011 said:

I get it now. There are four separate intersecting objects in the stl file, so skeinforge gets confused as to which surfaces are inside and which are outside. The brain cavity actually has three surfaces. (Very bad! should never be odd!)

Also, it looks like the lip is not supported well, but it is ok if it is printed small enough that the gap between the support and the lip merges.

I've separated the objects using meshlab. Tomorrow I'll try to merge them properly using the binary operations in blender. (It would be cleaner in O
penSCAD, but I want to use the jaw support as a cutter to separate the blobs inside so I can delete them.)

HPaul on October 23, 2011 said:

That's great! I've tried to clean this up in MeshLab, Netfabb and Rhino with no luck. If you succeed, please post how.

ssd on October 9, 2011 said:

you could probably clean up all the hanging threads by either making all the bottom surfaces horizontal or no shallower than 45 degrees. This would add material probably, however.

HPaul on October 9, 2011 said:

Well, most of the hanging threads on the exterior occur under the forward points of the cheekbones and would be hard to keep from dangling without changing the appearance of the
âfaceâ. I accepted the one for the sake of the other.

The excess complications, plastic, and hanging threads on the interior are largely the result of the difficulties I had using VectorWorks, a CAD program, to manipulate the mesh file. However, I don't claim to be an expert at manipulating eit
her mashes or VectorWorks.

Any improvements are always a good thing â feel free to clean it up.

Iâve posted the file as a .dwg file for anyone interested.

Kim on September 30, 2011 said:

Hmmm, how would Colbert feel if we did a skull replica of him?

ThePelton on September 28, 2011 said:

Alas, poor Elvis, I knew him, Horatio.

danielpublic on September 28, 2011 said:

It ain't over until Elvis have walked of the ABP.

qharley on September 27, 2011 said:

Any CSI types around here to reconstruct what the donor of the skull (would have) looked like?

7777773 on September 28, 2011 said:

I have an image enhancer that bitmaps and was able to reconstruct the image from the reflection. See attached photo for the enhanced image, and there is a tutorial here if you want to try it for yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...